… As President Trump has made Syria worse, I have heard kindred arguments from both ends of the political spectrum. Sure, the narrative runs, Trump is withdrawing from Syria in the messiest way possible, but isn’t this what the American people wanted? Don’t they want the forever wars in the Middle East to end? Surely they don’t want a return of the hawks, right?
What is striking about arguments like these is the near-complete absence of any discussion of public opinion polling to buttress their argument. CONT.
Daniel W. Drezner (Tufts), Washington Post